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Train Attendant Busted with Illicit Liquor Worth Rs 71k at Thane Station
- •A train attendant was apprehended at Thane railway station with Goa-manufactured Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) valued at Rs 71,560.
- •Shivam Chhanbas Mathapati was arrested on Wednesday from platform number 8 by the state excise department's Division E.
- •Officials seized 61 IMFL bottles containing 36.85 litres of liquor from Mathapati after he alighted from the 12134 Mangaluru Express.
- •Mathapati has been charged under the Maharashtra Prohibition Act and remanded in one-day excise custody.
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A train attendant named Shivam Chhanbas Mathapati was nabbed on platform number 8 of Thane railway station by a team from the state excise department following a specific tip-off. Authorities intercepted him as he alighted from the Mangaluru Express carrying two large bags containing 61 bottles of Goa-manufactured Indian-Made Foreign Liquor worth Rs 71,560.
Following the seizure of the illicit liquor at Thane station, the accused train attendant was charged under the Maharashtra Prohibition Act. He was subsequently remanded into a one-day excise custody by officials.
Coach attendants have been caught carrying illicit alcohol in backpacks and travel bags while working on trains, exploiting their transit roles to transport liquor from states like Uttar Pradesh or Goa to regions under prohibition or for sale at higher prices.